The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
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Show me a developer who isn’t crashing production systems, and I’ll show you one who can’t fog a mirror.
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The only thing more dangerous than a developer is a developer conspiring with Security.
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The best way to make sure something doesn’t get done is to have them in the room.
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Something seems wrong in a world where half the e-mail messages sent are urgent.
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any improvements made anywhere besides the bottleneck are an illusion.
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It’s not a good sign when they’re still attaching parts to the space shuttle at liftoff time.
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The Goal by Dr. Eli Goldratt.
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You get what you design for.
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Being able to take needless work out of the system is more important than being able to put more work into the system.
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Five Dysfunctions of a Team,
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IT is a competency that we need to gain as an entire company.
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‘Improving daily work is even more important than doing daily work.’
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The wait time for a given resource is the percentage that resource is busy, divided by the percentage that resource is idle.
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“To tell the truth is an act of love. To withhold the truth is an act of hate. Or worse, apathy.”